[meta-ti] RFC: creating "extras" layer

[Steffen Sledz]

On 13.06.2012 16:15, Enrico wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 3:17 AM, Denys Dmytriyenko <denis at denix.org> wrote:
>> ....
>> with the possibility of moving them back to "main" meta-ti in the
>> future, once they become "first-class citizens", i.e. gain current and
>> continuing support.
> 
> What's the official TI plan for this? I mean:
> 
> - what platforms is TI going to support? what platforms is TI going to
> keep current?
> 
> - are there any plans to keep support for the dsp-related things?
> 
> I imported and fixed the dsp-related things from oe-classic, and Koen
> was the only one that helped me.
> 
> I posted some patches for gst-ducati for omap4, with help from Koen
> and Rob Clark, and nobody cared.
> 
> I know the concept of "opensource" and "community" but  it seems to me
> that TI has no interest in all of this, just look at the current
> platform support after the extras split.
> 
> The point is that you will not stop people complaining (like Steffen
> some days ago) just saying: "oh it's in extras you are lucky if it
> builds".
> 
> So the question is: are there any plans in TI to properly support its
> platforms or will this continue to be a place where to drop some code,
> forget about it and then move it to an extra layer?

It's really a great pity that there is no (official) response from TI to this . :(

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